Weather Underground--tells of 10-14 inches in their "warning," but forecast has 6-11. Accuweather--6-13 inches, if you add up all the totals for today, tonight, THU.Weather Channel (weather.com)--6-11, again, adding up today and tomorrow.

National Weather Service (weather.gov)--12 inches.

I always used to prefer Accuweather, because they tended to be the least extreme...you know, 87 sounds better than 91, -18 is preferred to -25. However, last year I discovered the "graph view" of WU, which tells you the high and low and predicted rain/snow right at the top, and then a daily graph of the temp/rain chances.

The temp is pretty unimportant, but if the Rambling wife wants to take a walk, WU will tell you the chance of rain increases greatly at 4PM. Also, if the Rambling son wants to bike to school, all he cares about is the weather from 7:30-8 and 3:30-4. Often, there will be a high chance of rain, say 70-80%, but the amount is guessed to be 0.04 inches. How bad can that be?

As for this batch...geez, who do you root for? 6 looks like a best case scenario, and the 20 mph winds will make it bad hours after the snow ends. This seems like a situation when schools will just cancel tomorrow tonight, as most have had few weather trouble this year. In our case, he's off Good Friday and all next week, plus the following Monday (I assume for the Opening Day/NCAA basketball final unofficial) holiday.

If off THU, that would be a 12 day break...not to get all "back in my day" on you, but I recall many years growing up our "spring break" was 4 days long...and yes, that includes the normal 2 day weekend. Not many trips to Florida back then.

EDIT: Weather babe just predicted 8.5 inches for Wausau. I like the sounds of that.

3/23/2016 11:01:00 AM

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